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Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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I'll always remember Ax and Cinnabons and cigarette butts, and then the

spoilerlater horror of that one Shakira getting his tail cut off.

Real opposite ends of the memory spectrum there.

It really bothered me when Ax listenibg to the andalites instead of Jake when I first read this book, I didn't understand how onerous or tangible culture was for another decade or so until I started traveling.

It's also pretty scary when

spoilerthey start disappearing out of nowhere and nobody even had a theory as to what has happened to the disappeared Animorphs for several chapters.

As much as time travel Deus ex machina stuff gets my eye rolls going, I very much enjoy a lot of the arcs here, especially ax's burgeoning identity crisis.

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